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The reason why I wanted to have another look at this site and included it in my site analysis is because it stuck in my mind for its peculiar look. It is by no means a glitzy website, shiny and smart...instead, if you look at some of the sections, they strike me as a way of thinking about web design that is more illustration oriented...it is a simulation of a manuscript or print layout. The way information is laid out, it plays a lot with the idea of a dictionary, in case you didn`t get the point about the informative and quite possibly educational nature and value of the site from its domain name.
The reason why I wanted to have another look at this site and included it in my site analysis is because it stuck in my mind for its peculiar look. It is by no means a glitzy website, shiny and smart...instead, if you look at some of the sections, they strike me as a way of thinking about web design that is more illustration oriented...it is a simulation of a manuscript or print layout. The way information is laid out, it plays a lot with the idea of a dictionary, in case you didn`t get the point about the informative and quite possibly educational nature and value of the site from its domain name.
Another thing that is worth noticing is the eclectic nature of the imagery. It graciously combines photos with black and white, duochrome or coloured drawings or prints, web-friendly fonts with fancy capitals and manages to have several types of fonts on the same page without giving the user a sense of...unease.
Also, maybe it is just me...but identity wise, the authors of the site, whether consciously or not, made the place exude a sort of dandyish arrogance, eclectism and slight contempt for the presumably uninformed or ill-informed visitor, who is ` kindly` taken for a `devil-may-care`, ` we`re-here-we`re-queer` informative ride. Then again, that might just be me...
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